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SCHOLARSHIPS

In conjunction with numerous concerned corporate sponsors, GWUL has facilitated the distribution of more than $2 million in scholarships to more than 300 young adults. Recipients have gone on to a diverse and elite range of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, local institutions of higher education, Ivy League institutions and other colleges/universities, as well as the Job Corps or other special post-secondary education and trade schools.

 

In Fiscal Year 2016, more than $26,000 in scholarships were provided to 18 accomplished students-in-need from the region.

Those scholarships include:

 

  • Monumental Sports Scholarship $4,000 

  • Charlotte Elizabeth Yancey Eights Scholarship $8,000 

  • SIMS Foundation STEM Scholarship $1,000 

  • LINK Strategic Partners Scholarship ($1,500) and Internship ($2,500)

  • Giant Scholarship $1,500 

  • Safeway Scholarship $2,500 

  • Empower Scholarship $1,000 

  • Empower Book Scholarship $500”


Scholarship Sponsors
 
  • SAFEWAY

  • THE SIMS FOUNDATION

  • GIANT FOOD

  • THURSDAY NETWORK

  • CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH YANCY EIGHTS

  • MONUMENTAL SPORTS

  • LINK STRATEGY

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